SUMMARY

• Highly Motivated and Solutions Driven Project Manager/Scrum Master with experience managing large enterprise software development projects for Fortune 500 Industry leaders like Confidential, Farmers Insurance and Allstate.
• Over 18 years of experience (including 6 plus years in Project management) in Software Development, Quality Assurance and Production Support involving Web, Mobile (iOS and Android) and Legacy Mainframe applications across Healthcare, Banking and Insurance domains.
• S killed in coaching, mentoring and influencing cross - functional and self-organized teams to maximize their full potential in order to achieve desired organizational goals and objectives.
• Experience working with geographically distributed scrum teams in a dynamic and fast paced flexible environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project/Program Management
• Agile Planning
• Detail Oriented
• Product Development
• Critical Thinking
• Strategic Planning
• Agile Coaching
• Problem Solving
• Process Improvement
• Quality Assurance
• Effective Communication
• Conflict Facilitation/Resolution

• Artificial Intelligence
• Web development
• API, UI/UX and Services
• ATDD, TDD
• Continuous Integration
• Microsoft Project
• C, JAVA, COBOL, JCL
• Mobile App (IOS and Android)
• Test Automation
• SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP
• Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid
• Agile Games
• Continuous Development
• Mainframe Technologies
• JIRA, Confluence
• Oracle, DB2
• Azure Devops, Github, Jenkins
• Microsoft Teams, Slack

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Scrum Master, developed a deep knowledge of all aspects of the project, helped define priorities and effectively managed planning, execution, and monitoring to successful conclusion.
• Facilitate release and sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, driving continuous improvement and effective stakeholder engagement.
• Work closely with Product Owners to drive backlog story grooming and to ensure backlog items are properly and fully defined prior to acceptance into a sprint.
• Encourage the team to raise impediments, proactively seek out, and drive bringing resolution to those impediments.
• Identify and manage risks, cross-team dependencies, facilitate issue resolution within the team.
• Guide and coach the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver value quickly and at a high-quality standard.
• Track and report on team efficiency, velocity, utilization to evaluate team performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Prepare project status reports, burndowns, velocity to keep management, project sponsors and project stakeholders informed of project status and related issues.
• Conduct Sprint reviews and Sprint retrospectives to identify areas of improvements for future sprints.
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters, Program Managers, Project Managers and Domain Managers across the enterprise to adopt, standardize and document delivery best practices.

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scope definition, cross-functional estimates and high-level planning workshops
• Develop complete project plans, timelines, communication strategies, and project documentation
• Facilitate release and sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, driving continuous improvement and effective stakeholder engagement.
• Extract and document requirements, author user stories and acceptance criteria
• Identify and remove impediments (risks and issues) impacting release and program level teams
• Collaborate with the team in scheduling work, including defect remediation and refactoring, guarding against the accumulation of technical debt
• Support Product Owners in developing, maintaining and grooming Product Backlog
• Identifies and manages dependencies with many other internal or external teams
• Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
• Ensure proactive scheduling of key deliverables, milestones and deliverable tasks
• Validate that scope can be completed within timeline and budget
• Manage resource assignments, budgets, scheduling, and scope prioritization, and change control
• Manage and maintain a decision log for all key decisions made on the program and communicate that regularly.
• Document and publish action items for meetings with due dates and owners and follow up to ensure tasks are completed before or on due date
• Coordinate and manage the daily activities of a cross-functional team for successful execution of assigned projects
• Communicate weekly status updates to program and project executive leadership team on delivery progress, plan updates and budget spend and forecast

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the delivery of Audit and Validation (A&V) solutions for all the Migration tracks.
• Own/drive/coordinate activities within A&V team and help the team resolve issues impeding A&V activities.
• Work with Conversion teams to understand any deviation from planned conversion activities and align A&V activities accordingly.
• Responsible for Creating and maintaining A&V project plan for test and production conversion runs.
• Accountable for delivery of Audit & Validation results to Business and IT Stakeholders.